Group Interaction Quotes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

Some teams take a while to jell; some click right away.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.

You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.

If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos?

I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

The chemistry is everything in a band.

Pair up in threes.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

I like to entertain the crowd. Personally I like to entertain my team-mates first, but when the crowd gets going, it is amazing.